Chicago is in a losing battle with street gangs and police superintendent Jody Weis has resorted to meeting with gang leaders and asking them to stem the violence. “What we’re really focusing is on group responsibility. If one of these guys should kill another gang member, we’re gonna come down with every bit of...
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After some exchange with a couple of people on Twitter regarding the WikiLeaks subject, I decide to post some quick, personal notes here, where I’m not limited to 140 characters of text, though I still aim for brevity. To give you some context on what shapes my opinion (in no specific order and obviously...
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Clearly, "gun control" in Chicago is more effective at preventing law-abiding citizens from owning guns than it is at preventing criminals from obtaining guns or using guns in violent crimes. When will gun control advocates realize it's time to try something new?
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Like Obama himself, his cabinet lacks real-world experience. Obama’s cabinet has the least amount of private-sector experience since at least Roosevelt. That explains a lot…if you don’t know how American businesses work, how can you help American businesses recover?
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The quote below is from a piece by libertarian columnist John Stossel on RealClearPolitics.com. Emphasis mine. “As much as I might want to hire new salespeople, engineers and marketing staff in an effort to grow, I would be increasing my company’s vulnerability to government,” Michael Fleischer, president of Bogen Communications Inc., wrote in The...
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting this: “It’s very hard work to run an organization, let alone one that’s constantly being spied upon and sued,” Mr. Assange said in the interview. This completely removes any credibility wikileaks may have claimed. Julian Assange has no claim to any moral high ground at this point.
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From Yahoo News: “BP had 760 safety violations in the past five years and paid $373 million in fines, Sullivan said. By contrast, Sunoco and ConocoPhillips each had eight safety violations and ExxonMobil just one, Sullivan said.” My question is why did it take an ecological disaster for the various U.S. regulatory agencies to...
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My office is near several colleges and universities here in Chicago and I often see young, impressionable students congregating on the sidewalk wearing the emblematic Che’ T-shirts, glorifying the life of a mass murder. What exactly were the fruits of Che’s revolcion? “A typical Ché t-shirt costs more than the entire monthly salary of...
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A recent conversation on Twitter has again reaffirmed a long-standing theory of mine that the partisan rancor we have here in the U.S. is partly attributed to the very common misconception that the U.S. is a democracy, ruled by the majority. The founding fathers did not establish a democracy ruled by the majority, but...
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The tragic vision may seem arrogant, hawkish, and unenlightened, even brutish to some but it’s grounded in realism, experience, empirical facts. Conversely, in the vision of the anointed, as defined by Thomas Sowell, many of the ideals are suspended in fantasy — as honorable myths, but myths nonetheless. Krauthammer says it much more eloquently...
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